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	Building Wealth: The New Asset-Based Approach to Solving Social and Economic Problems The first across-the-board survey of innovative, asset-based strategies that are advancing social purposes. Read the press release » Executive Summary (PDF 1.75MB) » Order a copy from the Aspen Institute Bookstore » Special Issue on the Non- Profit Economy Is the way we are currently using the capital available to us working during a period of declining social spending and greater inequality? In this issue of Nonprofit Quarterly, Gar Alperovitz of The Democracy Collaborative and others discuss ways to enhance community wellbeing. Visit nonprofitquarterly.org for the full story » NEW Evaluating Community-University Partnerships Community groups are finding partners in local colleges and universities to fight deindustrialization, suburbanization, and disinvestment. article-reardon.pdf (1MB) » Other Articles-Publications »




	This Month's C-W City: Portland, OR Today, Portland's community development industry is widely seen as a model for comprehensive community-wealth-building efforts. More on this month's C-W City » Innovations: Employee Ownership Preserves Jobs Professor Jacquelyn Yates of the Ohio Employee Ownership Center finds that employee ownership has enabled the Center to retain jobs in-state for $423 per job retained, created or stabliized. paper-yates.pdf (179KB) » Buzz: War on poverty: Unfinished business Current issue of NEJPP, on the UMASS website » After the flood: Rebuilding New Orleans report-brookings.pdf (3.54MB) » report-boshara-et-al.pdf (70KB) *Community Development Corporation Trade Association Looks to the Future* article-new-rules.pdf (149KB) » Read more Recent Articles » Happenings: Social Enterprise Alliance 7th Annual Gathering, March 7-11 Atlanta, Georgia The City of Atlanta will host the Social Enterprise Alliance’s 7th Annual Gathering this coming March 7-10, 2006, aiming to change the "entire paradigm by which not-for-profits operate and generate the capital they need to carry out their mission..." Visit the Website for more info » Other Events & Conferences »

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